Monthly Archives: May 2009

Short and useless commit messages

I have been guilty of writing short, pointless, and completely useless commit messages [before]. Stoked by a recent thread on StackOverflow about the worst commit message that one has ever authored, I looked into the commit log for a project I have been working on and subsequently maintaining for the last one year. I had [...]

Debugging Django applications!

When developing Django applications, there can be many times when you would want to roll up your sleeves and get your hands dirty. You may want to know, for example, why the control isn’t falling into a certain block of code, what values are being returned to the view from the browser or test client, [...]